I'm torn on defederation. In theory I like it; a user can join an instance that moderates to the level that they agree with. Beehaw is a pretty good example of this because a lot of users like having a slightly more restrictive community in order to maintain a certain vibe.

But yeah, there is a more pragmatic side of me that thinks that the average user isn't super informed about this stuff, and are naturally going to gravitate to the larger instances. No doubt there were more trolls coming from lemmy.world, but there are far more regular users that have no idea what's going on.

I think Beehaw's decision is understandable though, especially given the lack of moderation tools. They've already mentioned that they are willing to (re?)federate in the future when trolls/bots are easier to deal with.

You're in for a treat. Saw them at Red Rocks last year and it was one of the coolest concert experiences I've had.

Ah yeah--that is confusing here. I think there's a lot of UI improvements that are sure to come. For some reason there are two searches--a post search and a magazine search. The post search is the one that's visible on the top bar, and the magazine search is in the magazines tab (that lists all magazines), and in my experience is pretty good. If I search "tech" I get results from all sorts of instances.

All in all there's a lot of room for improvement, but it's such a young piece of software that I'm pretty confident it (and lemmy) will improve pretty rapidly in the coming months/years

Yeah--I constantly read about how people liked reddit back in the day, or liked digg, but don't connect it to the fact that the reason why they were better back in the day was because they were smaller and more intimate (for lack of a better word).

I'm excited for the fediverse to grow, but for me it's already reached that critical mass for it to be engaging

Out of curiosity, what couldn't you figure out? Haven't tried setting up an account on Lemmy, but I just created an account on Kbin in a minute and was up and running

Never was a huuuuuge fan of the heavy Gizz stuff (liked Murder of the Universe alright, didn't care for Infest the Rats Nest as much), but this might be a top 5er Gizz album for me. I was a little skeptical of Gila Monster when the single dropped, but I think it sits a lot better in the context of the album.

Stoked for their next album--supposedly more synth heavy, so I image the end of Flamethrower goes into the first track

Never was a huuuuuge fan of the heavy Gizz stuff (liked Murder of the Universe alright, didn't care for Infest the Rats Nest as much), but this might be a top 5er Gizz album for me. I was a little skeptical of Gila Monster when the single dropped, but I think it sits a lot better in the context of the album.

Stoked for their next album--supposedly more synth heavy, so I image the end of Flamethrower goes into the first track

I like Nix and used it for a year or so before kind of just getting tired of using a non-standard distro. Mostly just felt like it was trying to solve a bunch of problems that I never had.

Seems like it's targeting devops, only I can't really picture a devops situation where the powers that be would be interested in Nix...

Caldo de Costilla is a staple at my house because of how easy it is. Basically a "throw everything into the pot until it tastes good" hangover stew.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023048-caldo-de-costilla-colombian-beef-rib-soup

Kenji was mentioned; he has a ton of Colombian recipes since his wife is Colombian if I recall correctly. He had a recent video with another really unique and cool looking soup that I haven't gotten around to trying yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFLzI_Tq8P4